![]() What elevates the film above the routine is its visual look and female cast: Cate Blanchett as Spacey's first wife, Julianne Moore as the new woman in his life and especially the formidable Judi Dench as his feisty aunt. Based on E Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the tale centres on a third-rate newspaperman (played by a vastly miscast Kevin Spacey), who embarks on a journey of self-discovery when he returns to his ancestors' home on the coast of Newfoundland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What has happened to the singular vision of Lasse Hallstrom, so clearly evident in his Swedish ( My Life As A Dog) and first American film ( What's Eating Gilbert Grape')' The Shipping News, his third consecutive film for Miramax, propagates the same compassionate humanism that defined his previous two, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat (both Oscar-nominated), but it also suffers from some of their weaknesses: the film is soft, bland and somewhat shapeless. ![]()
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